Signal Processing

The U.S. State Department and U.S. Department of Commerce are making big changes to long-standing export control policies as part of an effort to improve the international competitiveness of the U.S. space industrial base.

MOORESTOWN, NJ. Lockheed Martin won a $914 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for improving the way objects are tracked in space to increase U.S. capabilities for preventing space-based collisions.

The Bluefin-21 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) from Bluefin Robotics has been the only vessel of its kind aiding in the search for missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370 over the past several weeks. This particular U.S. Navy-owned Bluefin-21 has been equipped with sonar, and yet despite valiant efforts has not yet found any sign of the [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CA. IRCameras (IRC) has announced the latest QuazIR family of infrared Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) cameras designed for applications where Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) is critical.

MESA, AZ. The Boeing AH-6i light attack/reconnaissance helicopter was flown in its product configuration for the first time during a recent test flight. Boeing pilots flew the aircraft for approximately 20 minutes at low speeds in forward, rearward, and sideward flight at low elevations. Future tests are soon to follow to improve the helicopter’s attack capabilities and close-air support.

The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 budget request for the Department of Defense (DoD) is not in any sense a wish list for new, high-priced platforms, but more a roadmap for extending the life of current weapons systems, aircraft, and ships through targeted retrofits and upgrades.

Electronic Warfare (EW) system designers are taking advantage of the performance leaps in commercial technology, driven by high-volume commercial markets such as telecommunications and cloud computing. These components such as FPGAs combine speed, high connectivity, and low power consumption for signal-processing intensive EW platforms such as fighter aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

Several technology trends are driving advances in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) payloads on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – higher compute capacity, the growing use of VPX, and locating the processor closer to the sensor.